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Can anyone give me a QRD on the Billy cheating situation? Is the whole controversy that used unofficial hardware? We've had autists playing these games for 40 years, I'm sure he has enough detractors that they watched every second of his gameplay slowed down to notice any point discrepancy. Has it actually been proven that he cheated?
 
Can anyone give me a QRD on the Billy cheating situation? Is the whole controversy that used unofficial hardware? We've had autists playing these games for 40 years, I'm sure he has enough detractors that they watched every second of his gameplay slowed down to notice any point discrepancy. Has it actually been proven that he cheated?
The best anyone can claim is that allegedly Billy used MAME (an emulation suite) for one high score that is in dispute, however he very soon thereafter logged an even higher score in front of a live audience on confirmed original hardware so the score in dispute doesn't even matter.

Karl and others also harped on Billy because in an old photograph, Billy is seen with a DK cabinet sporting a red joystick which is an aftermarket part (OG hardware is black). This caused a stir because that model of red joystick moves in 8 directions, not 4 like the original. While the diagonal inputs don't translate to movement in Donkey Kong, if you know what you are doing you can use these invisible inputs to salt the game's RNG. Billy stated that the disputed red joystick had a limiter plate attached to it which reduced its available movement to 4 directions so cheating was not possible.
 
Can anyone give me a QRD on the Billy cheating situation? Is the whole controversy that used unofficial hardware? We've had autists playing these games for 40 years, I'm sure he has enough detractors that they watched every second of his gameplay slowed down to notice any point discrepancy. Has it actually been proven that he cheated?

Billy cheated mediocrity using divine pacman and donkey kong skills bestowed upon him.
He then went on to cheat poverty by producing a hot sauce empire.
Finally using ancient techniques passed down through the Mitchell family he was able to cheat an albino out of his life savings and house.
 
Has it actually been proven that he cheated?
Only in the strictest technical sense, claiming a MAME emulated game was on an original cabinet. Allegedly, this can make it possible to exploit, but there's no evidence he did anything to get the score other than playing well. Still, a technical foul.

I've also seen complaints that he used a restrictor gate on a joystick (to limit its movement), but I haven't seen any evidence that's even prohibited. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not enough of a nerd to know.
 
Can anyone give me a QRD on the Billy cheating situation? Is the whole controversy that used unofficial hardware? We've had autists playing these games for 40 years, I'm sure he has enough detractors that they watched every second of his gameplay slowed down to notice any point discrepancy. Has it actually been proven that he cheated?
The allegation is that he submitted a high score using MAME emulation playing on a "fake original cabinet" and submitted it as a high score to the original hardware category.

Even at the time there already was a MAME category to submit high scores under, which had extra requirements for a score to be valid to ensure no cheating took place. (IIRC full uncut video footage of the entire gameplay was required at the time)

The high score of which a video exists clearly shows level loading pattern that ONLY happen on MAME and the sound is conveniently disabled because MAME sampled sound differs from original as well.

IMHO it is pretty much a forgone conclusion that he did submit a score that was not legit for the category he submitted it to and went to great length to obfuscate it.
But as other's pointed out, he did in the meantime beat that score. He is a pretty good arcade gamer, for whatever that is worth.

[EDIT] But he will forever be remembered as the American Chad who murdered the career of the Aussie Albino Faggot.
 
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I've also seen complaints that he used a restrictor gate on a joystick (to limit its movement), but I haven't seen any evidence that's even prohibited.
To clarify here, it would be the LACK of a limiter plate that would cause the cabinet to run afoul of certification. The presence of said plate would prohibit the erroneous directional input that someone with advanced knowledge of the game could use with the 8 way stick to give the illusion of really good luck with thrown barrels and fire patterns.

Billy explained that the red joystick is aftermarket hardware, that's because actual genuine parts are impossibly rare as they haven't been manufactured for decades. So an aftermarket part that has been modified to be functionally identical to original hardware - in this case by way of a limiter plate - satisfies the requirements for a cabinet to be considered original hardware.
 
just copped one of those thanks for the heads up
Enjoy your time in the sun amerimutt beacsue fuck import fees :spudking:
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he submitted it to and went to great length to obfuscate it.
To add further light to this. One of his attempt at proving he really used a real cabinet, when it fact, he did not have access to one was showing a board swap video.

Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. run off similar hardware, so much in fact that you can swap out the main board from one game to the other and still play it, sure the cabinet won't match the game but everything else is legit. In fact back in the days, arcade owners could order conversion kits that was cheaper than buying a new arcade. It would be a new board with decals and inserts for your cabinet so you could turn an old less popular game into a newer game to draw in more of those quarters.

Also with cabinets aging and hardware failing there's been cabinet that have broken down with boards that are still intact so while it might be hard to fight a fully working cabinet of a old game like DK, finding a spare board is more likely. Especially considering some owners would have converted their DK cabinet into a DK J one long ago.

In this video Billy and his buddy at an arcade shoot themselves taking out the board of a DK Jr. cabinet and then swap in the fabled DK board that he allegedly recorded his score with.

They don't actually boot the arcade in the video, which would prove that it is now running Donkey Kong, and worse yet, while he whips the camera around when tech puts down the JR board and grabs the "DK" board, legions of anti-cheat autists have analyzed the video and due to the physical configuration of the chips on the board it's actually obvious he's just putting the DK JR board back in the cabinet.
 
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Billy is selling an autographed photo/headshot set on the Rickey's website now. One of the photos is him as Namco's Player of the Century, an image used as a promo for the King of Kong documentary.

The other one is this:
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This is a real item that is for sale on the website (A).

"KARL LOST" still works as a coupon code, by the way.
I ordered one of these. I will get it framed. Love collecting lolcow memorabilia like this.

SUFFAH KARL!
 
Billy is selling an autographed photo/headshot set on the Rickey's website now. One of the photos is him as Namco's Player of the Century, an image used as a promo for the King of Kong documentary.

The other one is this:
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This is a real item that is for sale on the website (A).

"KARL LOST" still works as a coupon code, by the way.
That description is possibly one of the funniest things ever. So is that 30 minute joystick video in retrospect lmao. King of Kongs, King of Dongs, can't stop winning

Total BTFO Billy victory
 
It’s funny to see how absolutely owned some little faggot in Australia is getting owned by an old man. I get Karl’s bad videos recommended to me time to time and I take amusement in how badly his views have tapered off. I wonder what he’s going to do to make sure Billy gets his money.
 
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